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@DeeLeeCircus @william_tu12117 It drives costs down. But the returns never went to wages. Real wages stagnated or fell. All the savings kept accruing to the already-wealthy. They only let money go to wages if they can't personally enrich themselves further because of taxes.

@william_tu12117 Supply side economics, the thing Democrats call "trickle down economics". You make it cheaper to do business (deregulation, tax cuts) increasing the supply of goods and services driving the costs down. That with limiting immigration and your wages no longer stagnates.

Can someone, anyone answer this? Democrats/Liberals want lower prices but increased wages. Explain to me how that works.

@william_tu12117 Stop shoveling ever-increasing piles of money at the executive level/shareholders/stock market (that includes stock buybacks which used to be outright illegal)

@Vinncent We understand it. The commentary is rhetorical, a demonstration of why that magat moron shouldn't have started the war in the first place!

Extraordinary how much of the US commentariat doesn't understand that you have to take a "bad deal" after you lose a war

@conor64 Depends on the size and scale of the foundation and its work, for the same reasons that I don't inherently and automatically object to corporations or governments with multi-billion total assets.

A question for people who worry that any individual billionaire possesses so much concentrated wealth that they have a dangerous amount of power and/or threaten democracy: do you feel the same or differently about active foundations with a multi-billion endowments? Why/why not?

@omgsidewalks They have. Capitalism's just a framework for understanding aggregate economic behavior. Market behavior occurs everywhere, regardless of economic "system." They formalize and justify the inputs and outputs in different ways. So long as living requires energy expenditure, we pay

Capitalism is only a couple hundred years old. Humans have not been paying to live and survive on this planet for thousands of years. Please understand this

@aravosis Respectfully, addressing coverage before pricing was the wrong way as national policy. After that, DC more or less washed its hands and said reform was done, it made addressing prices harder. Dealing with the price inflation first would have made coverage reform after easier. 🤷‍♂️

For starters, I wouldn’t even have health insurance if it weren’t for the ACA. My pre-existing conditions would’ve guaranteed that no one would’ve given me insurance as someone who’s been self-employed since the late 1990s. Second, republicans have repeatedly hobbled the ACA to make it more expensive, starting with the individual mandate that Republicans killed, which caused prices to increase. So if you want to have a discussion about whether we’re better off with the ACA, and who’s responsible for prices going up, happy to have it.

@Aella_Girl What's the significance of the altered color-coding for dom/sub clusters?

I made a map of ~500 kinks, based on a huge amount of data on how correlated kinks tend to be with each other. Interactive explorer linked below

@BradPilon The premise is wrong, that wasn't true in the 80s. And your body doesn't do just the one thing with the protein. Your body can and will convert protein into many things besides muscle. Turning it into energy stored for later is just considered suboptimal use.

Every one please remember, since 30 grams of protein was the most we could fit in a scoop of protein back in the 1980's, and despite the decades and decades of research suggesting otherwise, 30 grams is also the exact amount your body can absorb in one meal ;)

@stefanoscalia Dev-bot account. The open space isn't the issue, much of which was/is carved out of spots which were gonna be problematic to develop anyway. It's the zoning and the obsession with low-density housing (and general near-freeze on development)

I'm so tired. I don't want a single new park in San Francisco. We don't need them. At all. I just want housing. Market rate. BMR. Whatever. Just housing. Retail. Transit. I don't care about parks or open space. We have so much in the bay. We're drowning in it.

@Jimmy55544 There are sub tops. Myself, I trend toward faggot but there are regrettably a few limits

A bottom is a gay man who likes dick up the ass. A sub is a bottom who likes to be controlled during sex. A faggot is a thing that needs to be controlled by men 24/7, sexually & non-sexually. Which are you? Comment below.

@caranthirs I didn't really get that sense from Martin. I did get it from Tolkien. I was a lot younger than and more apt to feel that way but Tolkien's material demonstrably WAS grounded and less fake

“what makes the invented words and names from tolkien and martin feel more grounded and less fake than other fantasy” is an interesting question because there is an extremely obvious answer but i don’t think that answer is actually what most readers are feeling (or not entirely)

@Scaramucci It's true for a free democratic society where you achieve the goal by maximizing growth. They DON'T want that. They want a feudal society with them on top. Way easier to stay on top with less competition that way.

Henry Ford was generally a racist and a bad person, but he understood something our current broligarchs have completely forgotten. He said: I have to pay my workers enough to afford the products they’re building. Give them a house, decent schools, reasonable healthcare. If I do that, they’re not descending on my Dearborn mansion with pitchforks while I eat my caviar. We’ve lost that plot entirely. We have broligarchs who want to be trillionaires and they’re missing the lesson that a deeply flawed man figured out a hundred years ago. Capitalism works, but only if people believe the game is worth playing. Right now they don’t and history is very clear about what comes next.

@davidslosttt Well, you magats wanted to turn the entire state into something even worse, so. . . We're familiar with the sort of people you elect in Shasta and the coercion and suppression you already use on dissenters.

I didn’t realize people actually want the state of Jefferson lmao

@lillianemallow Tell them your safe word

whats the best way of saying no to something in a "but please still force me to do it anyway" kinda way

@itskostyn I dunno. I believe that balance has to be maintained. If you're gonna clean my house, I need you to make something else equally dirty and messed up.

Can I clean your hoouse? x.com/itskostyn/stat…

@hecubian_devil Because they reserve that attitude for people who say they're from Los Angeles but are from the greater area

Why does NYC have their weird “who is REALLY a New Yorker?” discourse but in Los Angeles you can call yourself an Angeleno after living there for 9 months and no one cares

@robertgraham They have absolutely no need for tax breaks and they should not be getting them. They are corruptly influencing a few to get massive discounts so they can build where most don't want them in the first place

Facebook/Meta got a $3.3 billion tax break to build this data-center, which some media has reported as putting a huge billion dollar "hole" in state finances. Nonetheless, it still pays more in taxes than it receives in benefits from the government. That "hole" is just theoretical numbers, the real numbers is that data-centers add to government revenue. Facebook's/Meta's huge tax break was from state sales taxes. They paid all sorts of other taxes. In this case, a county 1% sales taxes on the billions of hardware they purchased. Just because they got a state-wide tax break doesn't mean they got a local county tax break. The point is that most reporting is biased against data-centers. They pretend the missing theoretical taxes are somehow bankrupting local governments, when in fact they do the opposite, and are a net increase in revenue. They consume fewer increased services than the increased taxes they provide.

@AndyMasley You're saying no one in the general public should read data center articles or bother forming any opinions about data centers. Because what you posted was deliberately obfuscation to the general public. Informing includes educating, offering context/explanation where necessary

My simple rule for data center articles is you should expect to be talked to as if you're a local planner. Someone comes into your office and gives you two identical stats on a new project. One says: "It uses 200 swimming pools of water per day." And the other says: "It uses 1% of the city's municipal water draw." Which gives you footing in how you should think? If you read something and it wouldn't give you enough useful context as a planner, it's a bad way of presenting the relatively simple info.

@7celo I don't hook up with barely overage or twinks anyway, but even if I did I'd keep another hard rule. "No exchanges". $/goods/services can't be offered for nsa sex or its not no-strings-attached anymore

If you’re 30+ and can’t host+uber a twink for sex, what are you even doing?

@HerndonforIdaho Protecting that large well developed property from fire, theft, etc. IS more expensive than doing so for the 1br down the road and you're trying to offload the extra costs onto everyone else

Three neighbors. Same road, same sheriff, same fire truck, same EMS. One pays $5,000 in property tax. The next pays $2,500. The third pays $1,250. Same services. Four times the bill. The only difference is a guess about what their houses might sell for. That is not a tax. It is a penalty for owning.